TIIE NEW YORK PJIESS. BDrroRiAt omnoKB or thb titAima joubsau! VtOS CTBRKNT TOPICH COMPILED BVERT DAT TO& TBI KTESIBO TELKOBAPH. A Sew Political Iarty. jVom the Time. Senator Wade's speech In Kansas, of whlou W had a brief notice by telegraph, makes It clear that we are to have a political party fcwed on the broadest and plainest doctrines of ftgradanfsm. A war on property is to suoceed tie war on slavery. -Confiscation Is the first plank in the new Tlatforra. General Butler declares that "some plan most be devised by which the lands of the South may be divided among those who shall occupy and till them." That plants confisoation-ostensibly In punishment for Rebellion, but really to take the lands of the South away from their white owners, and give them to the negroes. General Butler declares Jt to be a 'Belf-evidont truth" that "where the land Is held in large tracts by the em ployer, to be tilled by the employed, there can Ie no Just and true field for the exercise of republican statesmanship." This is certainly a new view of the subject. In order to secure a "just and true field" for the ingenuity and ambition of men in publio life, we must have a new distribution of property in the Southern Thisis for the South, and its object is to Secure the negro vote. But it does not go far enough. It covers only part of the ground, and leaves the political future open to too many contingencies. So Senator Wade visits Kansas, and proclaims there the new political roe pel. Besides confiscation in the South, we must Insist upon a new distribution not only of lands, but of all property everywhere. "Con gress," said Mr. Wade, "which has done so snuoh for the slave, cannot quietly regard the terrible distinction which exists between the laborer and the employer. Property is not fairly divided, and a more equal distribution jnust be wrought out." These evils are more seriously felt, he said, at the Kant than at the West. It is fair to infer, therefore, that the remedy, whatever it may be, is to be applied here first. This looks a little as if we were getting back to the old days when "vote yourself a farm" Vas the war-cry of a political party. But the most curious feature of Mr. Wade's proposi tion is that he insists upon female suffrage as the means to bring about the other reforms vhich he seeks, lie evidently expects that women are sure to be Democrats, Radicals, agrarians in their politics. This shows how little he knows about them. Women are na turally and inevitably aristocrats; and when ever they get the right to vote and to hold office (and if they have one they must have the other also), we shall stand a very good chanoe of having onr democratic institutions over thrown, and an unadulterated aristocracy established in its place. There is n H the slightest chance that Gene ral Butler, Thaddeus Stevens, Wendell Phil lips, and Mr. Wade will succeed in, what is evidently their leading purpose, fastening their doctrines of confiscation, spoliation, and redistribution of property, upon the Republi can party. But they will be very likely to organize a new party based upon those purposes and principles. Japan Great Field far American En. terprlse. IVom the Herald. The departure of the Japanese Commis sioners and their suite from this city, for Japan leads us to consider the growing inter course between this country and that, and the great field for Amerioan enterprise which is opening on the other side of the Pacific. The first Japanese who came here a few years ago, when, as will be remembered, the smart little fellow Tommy was quite a sensation with the ladies, were an embassy to make or complete the treaty between Japan and the United States. This last party of officials was a com mission for business purposes, though also sent by the Tycoon. They came to look after funds which had been sent to this country for the purchase of vessels of war, and to make purchases for a Japan navy. They have suc ceeded in obtaining from our Government the famous Rebel ram Stonewall; which formi dable vessel is now being prepared for sea at the Washington Navy Yard, aud when ready will be sent to Japan. Two officers of the Japanese navy, First Lieutenant Ogasawara Xendon, and Second Lieutenant Jovata-llaisa-Ku, remain here for the purpose of going in the Stonewall, when that vessel is ready for tne voyage. In the. present age the great race among nations is for the prise of commerce. For the trade of the East, or, in a more specific term, of Eastern Asia, there has been an intense rivalry. Great Britain has had, heretofore, the advantage, because she had acquired a large colonial empire . in that part of the world. India itself has proved very valuable to her commerce; but her dominion there gave her particular advantages in other countries of Asia. The Dutch also, up to a late period, monopolized a good deal of the trade of the liaat. But a great change has taken place Within a few years, and, we might say, almost within a few months. The United States have Jiow entered the race for the commerce of Asia with a vigor, prestige, and facilities that no other nation possesses. We have approached thoBe populous and rich empires of Asia which a short time ago were sealed against the rest of the world, not as Euglaud and other Eowers have, with cannon, but with the olive ranch of peace and good-will. They bave appreciated this, and we stand to-day better in the eyes of the Japanese and Chinese than any other people. They have recently learned, too, what a mighty power this Republio is, and what a rich, ana vast oouuiry we possess. This has a powerful influence over the Asiatio mind. The Chinese, who have emigrated by tens of thousands to the Western shores of the Republic, learn a good deal about the country, and send the information to their countrymen. The Japanese, a shrewd, inquiring people, Who oome here, spread intelligence of America throughout their country. One of these Com missioners, who left yesterday, Matsmoro, was liere before with the Embassy. He was sent again, doubtless, on acoouut of his ability and bis knowledge of the English and several other languages, to investigate matters here, and to make a report of them when he arrives home. We understand that he is 'full of ideas," and will communicate them to his Government and countrymen. The first Commissioner, X)ntomogoro, is a very observing man also, we understand; but Mats moro has had superior advantages, and is a learned and keen observer. Should the Tycoon Send an ambassador to Washington, which is i very desirable, Matsmoro would make an excellent representative. It is to be hoped, too the Tycoon will send his brother, who-is now in Paris, to the United States before ha returns home. That Prince would he able to compare the wealth, power, gran deur, and vastuesa of this country with the TIIE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, mere glitter of the small States of Europe, lie would see here the seat of the greatest empire the world ever know, and the centre of the commerce of the world at no distant day. But for our progress and influence In East ern Asia we have not to look to what such impressions may efl'ect or the future may de velop. The facts are before us. The steam ship line Iwtween Han Francisco and Japan, and connecting with China, has brought that part of the world into intimate commercial relations with us. The frequent and regular intercourse thus established has created a most extraordinary and favorable impression. We have news from Japan in twenty-five to thirty days, and they publish the news from this country in the same time. Within a few years, when the Pacific Railroad shall be completed. we shall bo able to go from New York to Je.ldo in thirty days. The Japanese rightly regard ns as their near neighbors. American ideas are rapidly pervading the empire. Already the Tycoon and his officers of the army and navy are adopting our dress and uniform. Through their press and other means of com munication they are fast becoming acquainted With our institutions, habits, and the events of the country. The Tycoon, who is a young man of about thirty-five years of age, has large and liberal views. In a few months the whole empire will be opened to foreigners. When we consider that in Japan, a rich and productive country, with thirty millions of people, there is hardly a vehicle of any kind on wheels to be found, outside of those used by foreigners, and that they have no ma chinery or labor-saving implements, we shall see what a vast field there is for American en terprise. They dig or grub the earth, they carry everything on their shoulders or in their hands, and they have no facility of looomotion besides their legs. They want our improve ments; they are looking to us to supply them. Implements of husbandry, machinery, saw millfl, and steam engines of every description, with a thousand different articles of use among us in every-day life may ere long find a mar ket there. Then they need railroads and steamboats, which we can construct better than any other people. The production of tea, it is said by the Ja panese here, could be quadrupled by introduc ing all these improvements, for they have plenty of cheap labor. And so, probably, with rice and other productions. The move ment has commenced, and, to use a common sporting phrase, we have the inside track. If we take advantage of our opportunities we shall open a very extensive and lucrative com merce with both Japan and China, and in a short time it will not be necessary to send specie to pay for tea and other things imported from there. We may have a balance of trade in our favor. We may control the commerce of these great Asiatic empires. Such, by the judicious management of our Government aud enterprise of our people, is the prospect of a mighty trade on the other side of the Pacific. The Uw and the Sword. From the Tribune. The President and his Cabinet have con sidered the opinion which the Attorney-General has been directed to give of the right of the District Commanders in the South to re move civil officers. Mr. Johnson again and again in his veto messages, and in the strong est terms, declared that the Reconstruction act placed "all the people of the Southern States undor the absolute dominion of "mili tary rulers," and that it gave to the General in command "the power of an absolute monarch that his will was to take the plaoe of all law." It now appears that the Presi dent is not infallible, and that he has two ways of interpreting the law. Before the passage of the bill, Mr. Johnson made it as severe as possible in order to make it odious; now he would make it as mild as possible, in order to reconcile it with his policy; and the Attorney- ueneral has been set at work to find a flaw sufficient to justify interference with, the exe cution of the law. Thus far, no action of the military oom manders has made such an opinion a practical necessity. It is a merely theoretical and strained interpretation of the law, which no error or abuse demanded. The removals of civil officers in the Rebel States have been exceptions. Governor Patton, of Alabama (though he sought to prevent registration), Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, Governor Throckmorton, of Texas, remain in office. Every officer able to discharge his duties, and patriotic enough to decently submit to the law, has been unmolested, and of all the re movals there is not one that is not fully justi fied. Sheridan removed Abell, Monroe, and lierron for notorious crimes; with perfect im partiality he removed Wells, a radical, for reasons equally good. General Pope, in re moving Mayor Withers for neglect of duty in the case of the Mobile riots, had certainly right on his side. Sheridan surely gave no cause for complaint when he offered the Governorship of Loui siana to Durant, and gave it to Flanders; nor did Pope when he made Ilorton the Mayor of Mobile. It is as clear as the day that the intent of the Military law is reconstruction; that it was not intended to destroy but to build up civil government in the South, and in this spirit it has been executed by each of the district commanders. Congress did not mean to sweep away the civil authority in the South, and the law may in letter, but cannot in spirit, be so construed. If Mr. Johnson is prepared to take this stand, and to delay re construction upon the plan of Congress in the hope of forcing it upon his own plan, he will soon find that the people are ready to meet him. Who, then, would be responsible for this absolute tyranny, this prevention of speedy reconstruction f Mr. Stanbery would answer, Congress, which made the law; we, the Presi dent, who sought this strained interpretation ol Us language. Congress, the Kepuuiican party, never intended that the military power should utterly supersede civil power In the Southern States; it gave the district com manders the right of control, the right of removal, and, in the absence of any provision to the contrary, plainly did not intend to deprive them of the right of appointment. One of the great, self-evident purposes of the Reconstruction law is the maintenance and restoration of civil authority in the Rebel States, and that purpose will be fulfilled. Quibbling may defeat it for a time, but that defeat will not obtain the suooesa of the Presi dent's policy. Should the presumed opinion of the Attorney-General be enforced, it will be for a short time only, for as certainly as such interference with the law is attempted will Congress meet in July. Maximilian' Proclamation, From the Herald. The proclamation published, if it shall prove to have originated with the ex-Emperor Maximilian, will afford the world some new light as to the character of that Prince. It should be noted that it came to as, not from any of our special correspondents, but through the Associated Press, ana in Buch an indefinite, cloudy way that wo cannot trace It beyond New Orleans. It is to be nnpposed that the news with which it is associated loft QuertHaro not Inter than our special despatch, also pub lished on Tuesday. Indeed, as our special despatch cam by Galveston, we might fairly reason that that is the later of the two, and, therefore, that our correspondent on the spot should have known of the existence and pub lication of this notable document, if it were ever published at QueriHaro or ever oame from Maximilian. Yet our correspondent does hot mention it. He gives the latest authentio news of the German Prince, mentions his ill ness with dysentery, and the exertions on his behalf of the Priuoess Salm Salm, but not a word of the proclamation. As our correspon dent at that point is a man to be relied upon, and a line from him is worth a wilderness of ordinary press despatches, we must regard his silence as an evidence against the procla mation. Its authenticity might also fairly be denied on internal evidence. There is too much of the vulgar "last dying speech and confession" in it. It is Issued as a "warning to all ambi tious and incautious princes." Would Maxi milian so describe himself T Has he so far adopted Mexican views as to put himself in the category of men who plunge nations into war through heedless ambition t And is such a characterization quite consistent with the words in the opening of the document, that he came to Mexico "only animated with the best faith of insuring the felility of all?" In its separate sentences this proclamation gives itself the lie. It is too full of purely Mexican buncombe to have come from a European pen. No doubt Maximilian's feel ings against Napoleon would quite Justify the extravagant expressions attributed to him. The doubt Is whether Maximilian would have given them uttoranoe. While it is always possible that some original paper from the Prince may have been the basis of this document, and been badly translated or even "doctored" by the Mexican authorities, we must hesitate to believe that this docu ment is authentic, or that Maximilian would have issued it even at the suggestion of the Liberal Government and as the price of hifl life and liberation. The Harvest Fropct Blor Cheering Account. From the Timet. Nine-tenths of all the reports received at the Agricultural Department during the past month agree as to the favorable prospects for the coming harvest. Never, according to the Commissioner's summing up, has there been so general an expression of encouragement. Fiom the West and South the returns are especially promising, with the exception of an occasional district in the higher latitudes, where the winter wheat was exposed to the sharp and biting frosts of February and March. Many of the correspondents of the Department promise a wheat crop double that of last year. If there ia any reliance to be placed upon these reports and they are certainly borne out by the accounts that come to us through our exchanges it can hardly be possible for the grain speculators to keep prices from tum bling fast and heavily. They have been feel ing the downward pressure more or less for the last ten days. But at the opening of the mar ket this week there was a strong effort to get the figures up to the standard of the cold spring months the northeasterly storms of Saturday and Sunday being favorable to com binations against v.he consumer. Purchasers, moreover, bave been holding back since the recent fall in prices began, and their being obliged again to come into market to supply the demands for actual consumption, has tem porarily inspired holders with the notion of an advance. This was felt both on Monday and yesterday; and it need not be wondered at if the same state of things continues for a few days or perhaps weeks longer. All depends, or pretty nearly depends, on the sunshine we get for the next fifteen days. Consumers may in a measure regulate their purchases by that weather-gauge. There is no dispute whatever as to the large breadth of ground sown, espe cially in the South and Southwest. There can hardly be a reasonable doubt that, south of the Ohio and the Potomao, the danger of a failure either as to wheat or corn is past. But the full assurance of abundance is yet wanting.' How little the prioe of gold has had to do with the high quotations for breadstuff's during the past year, may be readily seen by turning back to our market reports of dates preceding the war and comparing them with the figures when the war was at its height, and gold had appreciated 50 and 100 per cent. For the six years from 1856 to 1861 inclusive, when our paper currency was at par, the average price of flour at this season of the year was $5-33. During the two first years of the war the ave rage was scarcely greater, only $550, although in May, 1863, gold had risen to 150. In May, 1864, the quotation for flour was about $710 ; but gold had then run up above 20, and in July was quoted as high as 280. Thus, with the one dollar greenback rated at little more than 40 cents in coin, we were actually paying $3 60 lens per barrel for flour than we have been paying for common kinds during this spring, with gold at 136. The greater part of this vast difference is, of course, only referable to the deficiency of last year's harvest and to the lateness of the present spring, at onoe delaying the opening of navigation and throwing doubt for the time upon the harvest prospects in most of the Middle and Northern States. So much of the rise as is not traceable to either of these causes is due to the combinations existing among dealers, and to the holding back of many of the wealthier class of farmers in ex pectation of famine prices before midsummer. Some of the latter have already got bit far worse than they bargained for. In view of all the reports now before the country, official and unofficial, it does appear to be safe enough for consumers to lay in no more than they actually need for immediate use. The weather must become suddenly and alarmingly bad much worse than we have had it if the growing crop does not far ex ceed in quantity aud quality that of 1866. I a Bummer Session of Cougreai Demanded 1 From the World, The Tribune has determined, it would seem, to reunite with the most radical members of the Republican party, temporarily alienated by Mr. Greeley's signature on Davis1 bail-bond and his letter to the Union League Club, and to Join them in preventing the exeoution o the military despotism act, in accordance with the mild Interpretation of Attorney-General Btanbery's official opinion. We have repeatedly called the attention of the radicals to that opinion, and urged upon them their bounden duty to protest now or not at all to the Attorney-General's views and President Johnson's exeoution of the law in accordance with those views. More outrageous injustice oould not be conceived than that by tLe Silence of ronsont the radicals should suffer the South to go on registering and organizing under that act thus interprotod, and then refuse to admit the Southern States into the Union, and their members to Con gress, because of objections to. the Attorney General's interpretation. For the Southern people have really no choice. The law of Congress is enforced among them by the Executive, acting under the direction of his constitutional adviser. It Teaches them in no other shape. They cannot choose between the military despotism act construed agreeably to the feelings of the Executive who vetoed It, and the same act construed agreeably to the wishes of the body which passed it over his veto. Therefore, whether by careless legisla tion the act permits of the interpretation made by Attorney-General Staubery, or whether his interpretation has strained it out of harmony with the intent of its framers, equally an im perative obligation rests upon those framers not to make the very obedience of the long suffering South a ground for prolonging their exclusion from tho Union. They, at any rate, should not suffer for organizing in the only manner in which they can organize j they should not be permitted to go on in good faith and expectancy till the December session, then to be rebuffed again for complying, in the only way they possibly could comply, with the hard requirements of Congress. If objec tions are to be made, the merest good faith re quires them to be made now, so that the July session for which Congress provided may reo tify its own omissions, or oorrect the Attorney General's interpretation, and Reoonstmotion proceed without further delay in time for the December session. The 1'ribum, which at first was inclined to indorse Mr. Stanbery's opinion, or at least to let it pass unchallenged, has now revised its judgment, and issued a pronunciamiento to which neither Senator Wade, nor Representa tive Stevens, nor its lately belabored Union League Club, can take the least exoeption. The Tribune informs the President, with the most dictatorial air, what its party will permit him to do and what it will not nermit him to do. It Informs him that he must not only swaiiow me military enactment, but must swallow it humbly and with the most radical sauce. It informs him Dlumnlv that Mr. Stanbery's condiments will not be permitted Dy me country" (its favorite phrase for the rabid radicals) to make the nauseous dose a whit less palatable to himself, a whit less re pulsive to the South. Every disgusting ap pearance, every stinking odor, every vomit provoking taste must be preserved clear and undisguised, or else, it informs the Chief Magistrate, a summer session will be called. P impeachment go on, and rage and hate again rouse tempests in our political sky. Now President Johnson has sworn to uphold and obey the Constitution of the United States, and to faithfully execute their laws as he reads them in the statute-book; but hereafter a file of the 1 ribune will be as necessary to him aa Little & Brown's edition of the "Statutes at Large," for it is also ordained that in exe cuting the laws of the land he must not merely jook to their faithful execution, and by re movals and appointments insure their faithful execution, it is also ordained and proclaimed at Spruce street that he cannot remove Gene rals (though they should openly soout and violate the law they are sent to execute) "who have the confidence of the oountry, nor appoint men in whom it has no conscience. Doubt less hereafter the 7 ribune will publish daily to the President its bulletin of men in whom the country has and has not confidence, and permit him to make his selection from its list. Ml. xA 1 . V 1 1 O :.. 1-1 I Sheridan. Set them be removed, it says, and "a summer session is inevitable." If General Grant has any order to General Sheridan let it be "Go in 1" That we may do no injustice to the Tribune, we quote herewith the most important part of its significant pronunciatitiento: "We know the President must be sorely tempted to use whatever power lie may possess to oppose a measure which he assailed so vin dictively last winter. That Is well understood. The country appreciates the fidelity with which lie performs his most unwelcome work. But be must perform It. Ills administration will not be permitted to Interfere with reconstruction by removing the Generals who have the confi dence of the country, and appointing men In whom it bus no coundence. Let the President but attempt this, let hlm oppose his executive prerogative to the operations of the Military bill, and in a day this era of good feeling will become a season of rage and hate this little cloud will cover the heavens with blackness. The country lslntensely earnest on this subject. Let bherldan or Hickles, for Instance, be re moved, and a summer session of Uougress whl be Inevitable. With a summer session the Pre sident's functions will most assuredly be so limited that it will not be In his power ever afier to remove any General commaudlug. All the bitterness thut prevailed last year will be renewed, a hundred questious will sutler, and the work of national pacification be stopped merely that tbe President and Congress may have another controversy, Hucii a controversy con have but one result, for the people feel with Congress, and will sustain it." Nor is President Johnson alone threatened after this autocratio fashion. General Grant, too, the especial bete noir of the radicals, whom the Times, by-the-by, yesterday declared with undisturbed placidity that it expected to see nominated by the National Convention of the Republican party General Grant, too, is in formed in the same autocratio tone that the magnanimity of Appomatox Court House will be entirely out of place in his future conduct towards the South; that he, too, must kneel and cringe to this radical despotism. Says the 1'ribune to him: "It Is also rnmored that General Grant has expressed auxlety in regard to Sheridan, and while he will not recommend his removal, he Blill feels that he might be reprimanded. We are happy to welcome any expression of Gene ral Grant that seems to Indicate uu opinion on any national question, but we believe this rumor to be untrue. General Graut will hardly care to Interfere with his renowned sub ordinate. At a critical portion of the war, he found it necessary to give Hherldan but one order, 'Go Id." If he bus any order to give let him repeat that." We do not interpret these edicts aa Mr. Greeley's abandonment of his own ambition for the Presidency, and hi resignation in behalf of General Sheridan, upon whom a larger and larger proportion of the radical party are laying their hopes. Mr. Greeley will take his thirst for offioe into the grave with him; but both in his own interest and in the interest of his party he consents to give a vicious lunge at General Grant, whom he dreads in his secret soul as the possible candidate of the opposition (for of course the General can never be persuaded to self slaughter as the candidate of the most in numerous faction of the party in power); and both in his own interest, and in the interest of his party, Mr. Greeley means to work des perately for such a construction and enforce ment of the military despotism act as will exclude from Southern ballot-boxes (if the South must bo allowed to vote) the largest number of votes hostile to him. This proclamation, therefore, has not merely a personal, but a party Bignificauoe. The Tribune is not so senseless as to insist that the military law shall be executed not uniformly. Uniformity in its execution is what justice demands, and what, forevery reason, Congress would especially insist upon. Unless Congress meets in July to frame fta own interpretation of the law, and the manner of its exeoution, JUNE 13, 1807. OldMyc Wliislcies. HIE LARGEST AND bEST- STOCK OF F 1 1! E O L D RYE 17 H IStUES IN TIIE LAND IS NOW POSSESSED BY " ' HENRY S. MANNIS Cc CO., Nob.- 218 and 220 SOUTH FRONT STREET, a ... UHO rrrBTIlE SAME TO TUB TRADE, IK lOTS.OH TEBT ADVANTAGEOUS TERMS. Ttolr Btocfc of Bt Whlkii, IN BON D, comprise all the favorite brand. slant, aad run through tbe various month of 1805,'60, and of thl var 7" pieeent date. ' v Liberal contract mad for lot to arrlv at Pennsylvania Railroad n.., Errlcaioa Lin ttharf,or at Bonded Warehouse, a parties maylet. "Pt Carpetings, Canton Mattings, Oil Cloths. Great Variety, Lowest Cash Prices. REEVE L. KNIGHT & SON. NO. 807 CIIESNVT STREET, (Below the Qlrard House). there is and can be no other uniformity than that which President Johnson, advised by the Attorney-General, prescribes, and no General who obstinately or ignorantly prevents this uniformity should for an instant be suffered to retain his plaoe. Therefore, when the Tribune assumes to insist upon the retention ef this or that major-general who executes the law differently from the generals of other departments, it in reality objects to Attorney-General Stanbery's interpretation of the law, and seeks by indi rection to force upon the President responsi bility for a July session, which, in all frank ness and fairness, it should the rather demand on behalf of the framers of the law and the party in power. SPECIAL NOTICES. UNION LEAGUE HOUSE, . -i MAT 15. 1867. At a meeting ot the Board ol Directors of the UNION LEAUUK OF PHILADELPHIA, held March 1Z, 1807, the following Preamble and Resolu tions were adopted: Whereas. Ia a republican form ot government It Is of the highest importance that the delegates of the people, to whom the sovereign power Is entrusted, should be so selected as to truly represent the body r otitic, and there being no provision ot law whereby the people may be organized for the purpose of such selection, and all parties having recognised the neces sity of such organization by the formation of volun tary associations lor this purpose, and Whereas, There are grave detects existing under the present system ot voluntary organization, whloh It Is believed may be corrected by suitable provisions of law; now, therefore, be It Keaolved, By the Board of Directors of the UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA, that the Secretary be aud is hereby directed to offer eleven hundred dol lars in prizes for essays on the legal organization of the people to select candidates for office, the prizes to be as follows, viz.: The sum- of five hundred dollars for that essay which. In the Judgment of the Board, shall be first In tbe order of merit; Three hundred dollars lor tbe second; Two hundred for the third, and One hundred for the fourth. The conditions upon which these prizes , offered are as follows, viz.: First. All essays competing for these prizes must b addressed to GEORGE II. BOKER, Secretary of the Union League of Philadelphia, and roust oereoelved by him before the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1368. and no communication having tbe author's name at tached, or with any other indication of origin, wlU be considered. Second. Accompanying every competing essay, the I author must enclose his name and address within a sealed envelope, addressed to the Secretary of the Union League. After the awards bave been made, the envelopes accompanying the successful essays shall be opened , and tbe authors notified of the result. Third. All competing essays shall become the pro perty of tbe Union League; but no publication of rejected essays, or lb names of their authors, shall be made without consent of tne authors In writing. By order ol the Board ot Directors. UEOBUE II. BOKER, 6 16 lm SECRETARY. REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION Harsiskurq. Anrll IS. 1867. The "Republican Stale Convention" will meet at the "Herdlo House," lu Willlumsport, ou WEDNESDAY, the Mlh day of June next, at 10 o'clock A. M., to nominate a candi date lor Judge of the Hup rem e Court, and to Initiate proper measures for the ensuing Stale canvass. As herelolore, the Convention will be composed of Representative aud Senatorial Delegates, cboieu In tbe usual way, aud equal lu number to the whole of the Senators and KepreseniaUve lu the Ueuexal Assembly. . By order of the State Central Committee. F. JORDAN, Chalrmrn. J. BiaY Dukouhum, j secretaries. g3o3lt rSSf STOCKHOLDERS' M KILTING. THE 32' FARMERS' AN MECHANICS' NATIONAL BANK. Philadelphia, May 13, 18G7. A General Meeting of the stockholders of Tbe Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank ol Phila dei'hlawlll beheld at tbe BANKIHU HOUSE, on Sa'iUMDAY, the mh day of June next, at twelve o'elotk, noon, tor the purpose of taking Into consider ation and deciding upon amendments ot the Third and Filth of the Articles of Association of the said Bank. Bv order of the Board of Directors, g ta tJ2M W. RUBHTON. Jb., Cashier, IKSSf OFFICE OF TUB PHILADELPHIA GASWORKS. JtTKK 1, 1M7. PropoHals will be received at this ollioe, No. ) 8. SEVENTH Street, until noon of the 1st day ol July, for the sale to tbe Trustees ot the Philadelphia Uas W orks of the Stock In the Uermautown, Richmond, Manyunk, aud Southwaik aud Moyameualng Uas Companies, to be used as Investments lot the Sink li:g Fuud oi suid Companion. 4 lm BEJSJAMIN B. RILEY, Cashier. trj&f N O T I C K.-AN ELECTION OF li-Xs Directors of the CHESNUT HILL IROX CUE COM PAN Y will be held at No. 827 WALNUT Street. 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